Question

#!/bin/bash
FILES=src/*.erl
shopt -s nullglob
for f in $FILES
do
  echo "Processing $f file..."
# ???
done

How i can extract file name from full path? And what does it mean – “pathfilename=${f%.*}”?

Answer 1

I’ll just copy the help-output, since it has examples and everything.

~$ basename --help
Usage: basename NAME [SUFFIX]
  or:  basename OPTION
Print NAME with any leading directory components removed.
If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.

      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

Examples:
  basename /usr/bin/sort       Output "sort".
  basename include/stdio.h .h  Output "stdio".